A study on the difference between emotion regulation amongst team and individual sports male athletes

The emotion regulation of team and individual sport athletes was assessed using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire developed by Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (2003), the emotion regulation questionnaire consists of subscales – expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal. After the acquisition of the data, statistical technique independent sample T-test was administered to find out the significance difference between the two groups and Shapiro Wilk test was used to assess the degree of normality amongst the data. The results depicted nonsignificant differences in emotion regulation among male individual and team sports athletes.